BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN The predictable word is in from Rio de Janeiro: failure. The conference 20 years on from the huge 1992 Earth Summit in Rio has been unable to produce even the pretense of an energetic verbal commitment of the world’s community to sustainable principles. The reason? These conferences have always been a fraud, lofted on excited green rhetoric and larded with ominous advisories that “this time we cannot afford to fail” and that […]
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